Cristallina Newborn Quotes & Sayings

[s]he was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it. — Amy Waldman

If we are instruments of God in the same way Paul was an instrument of God, then why was he so much more influential and effective? One difference is that Paul understood what his life was about. He believed the powers that had dominion over the earth were real - and that the power behind and within him was greater. Do — Michael S. Heiser

Open your eyes and tell me yourself, Sassenash, said a deep urgent voice somewhere close. — Diana Gabaldon

An educated theologian: someone who's better at rationalizing what they're pretending to know. — Peter Boghossian

Thus by such victory, not by machines but in oppositions to the principle to the principles of machines, has the freedom of states been preserved by the cunning of architects. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

I hate it!" Charles Wallace cried passionately. "I hate the Dark Thing! — Madeleine L'Engle

I know enough about Satan to realize that he will have all his weapons ready for determined opposition. He would be a missionary simpleton who expected plain sailing in any work of God. — James O. Fraser

Your whole past hangs around you with nothing completed - because nothing has been lived really, everything somehow bypassed, partially lived, only so-so, in a lukewarm way. There has been no intensity, no passion. You have been moving like a somnambulist, a sleepwalker. So that past hangs, and the future creates fear. And between the past and the future is crushed your present, the only reality. — Rajneesh

The requirements of romantic love are difficult to satisfy in the back seat of a Dodge Dart. — Lisa Alther

God's power is the key to any transformational change in our lives, including our health. — Rick Warren

The theory of behavior is useful to the life of man only as the index is useful to him who goes through it before reading the book itself; when he has read it, all that he has learned is the subject matter. Such is the moral teaching that we receive from the discourses, the precepts, and the stories we are treated to by those who bring us up. We listen to it all attentively; but when we have an opportunity to profit by the various advice we have been given, we become possessed by a desire to see if the thing will turn out to be what we have been told it will; we do it, and we are punished by repentance. What recompenses us a little is that in such moments we consider ourselves wise and hence entitled to teach others. Those whom we teach do exactly as we did, from which it follows that the world always stands still or goes from bad to worse. — Giacomo Casanova